Eric Frein, charged with murdering one state trooper and critically wounding another, is taken to prison after a preliminary hearing in Pike County Courthouse on Oct. 31, 2014, in Milford, Pa. (AP Photo/The Scranton Times-Tribune, Michael J. Mullen)

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Eric Frein was a hunted fugitive in the woods of northeast Pennsylvania for nearly two months—but that didn't keep him off the Internet. Police say Frein has told them he used unprotected WiFi hot spots to get online, the AP reports. A laptop computer and two thumb drives were found in an abandoned aircraft hangar near where he was captured. It's not clear how he kept the computer charged, but open WiFi signals are easy to find outside homes in the search area, according to WNEP, which notes that Frein would have been able to access coverage of the manhunt and listen to police scanners. "I never really thought about it, leaving it open," one resident with unprotected WiFi tells the station.

A search warrant application for the laptop details searches Frein made going back to 2012, including "how to escape a manhunt," "can police track cell phone" and "ballistics trajectory calculator," CNN reports. Frein—who was placed in handcuffs belonging to the state trooper he allegedly killed—appeared with wounds on his face after his capture, and his sister says she doesn't believe the police when they say he hurt himself while hiding and nothing "inappropriate" happened during his arrest. "I think we all know for a fact he didn't get it in the woods," she tells Reuters, describing her older brother as "really smart" and saying it is "a little extreme" to seek the death penalty for him. "If anything he needs help," she says.

So they looked at his search habits. Folks if you are not using the Tor browser with Startpage then you are fooling yourselves. Of course Facebook doesn't like it too much. They wouldn't let me log in and said I was trying to connect from Tehran, Iran. I'm not saying I wasn't but I don't like them snooping.

GaryUSA

Nov 5, 2014 10:27 AM CST

"If anything he needs help," she says The only thing that could "help" him is a brain transplant. And what about the family of the cop he murdered...they don't need help?

Ezekiel 25:17

Nov 5, 2014 9:10 AM CST

The sister seems a lot like Timothy McVeigh's sister, very protective of the killer brother. As for the wifi, its out there like nuggets of gold. In fact, I now have two parabolic dishes that pick up open connections as far as 12 miles from my home. One is mounted on an antenna rotator 25 feet in the air. I'm not as zealous as contest ham operators in California who use 18-foot wide dishes for wifi contests. They get up to 50 miles connection legs. I learned everything from a guy in Australia who puts up dishes on a mountain overlooking a large coastal city. He suggested going to an Asian grocer supply and getting a large fry basket. You remove the handle and then put the dongle in the focal point. I have one that is portable where I put it on the porch or window of the hotel or motel I'm staying. I mostly do it for fun. I use my phone's hot spot for anything personal. You do have to remember that the computer crimes act only kicks in if you hack into someone's pc. There have been convictions for that when people go farther than just tapping wifi.